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AWR Design Environment V15.03 Software Highlights

The AWR Design Environment V15.03 production release is available for download at Cadence Downloads with these and other enhancements:

• Application programming interfaces (APIs) – expanded calls and requests that support user-defined interface programming for custom design automation and enhanced productivity
• Cell libraries – improved mapping of shapes copied from a layout editor and pasted into an artwork cell editor
• Scripting – enhanced ability to generate extensible markup language (XML) libraries from both schematic and system diagrams
• Graphs – improved marker functionality and behavior, as well as restore behavior for optimization/yield goal values when moved or stretched
• Simulation – improvements to the AWR APLAC harmonic balance circuit, system and linear solver, as well as AWR AXIEM planar electromagnetic (EM) and AWR Analyst 3D finite element method (FEM) simulators that enhance simulation speeds and capacity to solve larger problem
• Layout and layout EM – multiple functionality improvements
• Shape preprocessing – added rules that account for via shape thickness calculation, improving accuracy of 3D EM analyses
• Equations – multiple functionality improvements
• System models – multiple improvements to 5G New Radio (NR) blocks
• Measurements – improved methodology for optional system measurement of thermal noise floor in AWR Visual System Simulator (VSS) RF budget analysis noise measurements, as well as improved functionality of circuit measurements
• Job Scheduler - enhanced functionality that allows management and monitoring of remote simulations more efficiently
• Wizards – improved OpenAccess import and export wizards, including new options for specifying which schematic symbols to export, as well as improvements to Gerber file import and robustness of network synthesis  
  
  

Customers or evaluators with an evaluation license can download the AWR Design Environment V15.03 software on the Cadence Downloads page.

For release details see "What's New in AWR Design Environment v15?"

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